Sunday 25 February 2024, 7.30pm
"My song has put off her adornments. She has no pride of dress and decoration. Ornaments would mar our union; they would come between thee and me; their jingling would drown thy whispers.
My poet's vanity dies in shame before thy sight. O master poet, I have sat down at thy feet. Only let me make my life simple and straight, like a flute of reed for thee to fill with music."
- Gitanjali 7
Inspired by poet, musician and painter, Rabindranath Tagore's collection of poems 'Gitanjali', musician and curator Dee Sada invites artists and musicians to share their own interpretations of 'song offerings' through spoken word, films and music performances. Join us on a metaphysical exploration of devotion, love, melancholia and spiritualism.
Harmeet Rahal (b. 1996, Mumbai) is an artist and filmmaker living in South-East London. His project ‘Afterprayers’ is a live soundtrack that plays with sampling as a conspiratorial framework and an exercise in paranoid pattern-recognition. Performed with an android phone, an electric guitar, and other such devices, ‘Afterprayers’ explores devotion through brief moments of anticipation, longing, despair and madness.
Harmeet has exhibited both nationally and internationally. Selected shows include Bloomberg New Contemporaries at Camden Art Centre, London (UK), People’s Freedom 75 at Bhupesh Gupta Bhavan, Mumbai (India), The Medium Is The Medium, at 8B2 Islamabad (Pakistan), and CIRCA Prize screenings in London, Berlin, and Milan.
https://www.instagram.com/harmeetrahal/
Inspired by horror films, carnatic music, DALL-E and wonky casio keyboards, Dee Sada (Paper Birch) and Mark Abbott (Noise Bodies) come together for a new project, Everywhere is Haunted.
The band evoke ethereal noise soundscapes and haunting melodies for a complete fever dream experience.
https://instagram.com/everywhereishaunted
Pragmata Collective is the collaborative practice of artists Adele Lazzeri and Toby Tobias/Kidd.
Since 2017, they have developed a joint practice along strands of performance, research, and collaboration. Pragmata has shown in diverse spaces such as Filet Space London, Live Art Ireland, GMK Gallery Zagreb, and Bastioni Association Florence.
@thepragmatacollective
@adelelazzeri
@t0bytobiaskidd
Stoned, psychedelic faux-blues and punk poetry floating down to the capital from the rainy north-west to play a couple songs and breathe in the local smog.
https://m.soundcloud.com/terrapin2000
https://instagram.com/tarstayne_teeth
https://spotify.link/bip6doou7Db
Nisha Ramayya grew up in Glasgow and now lives in London. Her poetry collection States of the Body Produced by Love (2019) is published by Ignota Books. Her second collection will be published by Granta in 2024. Tentatively called Now Let’s Take a Listening Walk, it hazards a musical journey through history, myth, and sci fi. Nisha teaches Creative Writing at Queen Mary University of London.
